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Joint resolution to enter into a contract with Conference Technologies, Inc., Itasca, Illinois, to upgrade existing audio-video and integrate with courtroom AV requirements supporting in-person or hybrid proceedings in the older courtrooms in an estimated amount of $694,251.54.
Staff Summary
• The 19th Judicial Circuit Court was awarded grant funding from the Supreme Court of Illinois Court Technology Modernization Program to provide services benefiting the court, court users and justice partners.
• The contract will provide an upgrade to the existing audio, video and integrate with courtroom AV requirements supporting in-person or hybrid proceedings in twenty-seven (27) of the older courtrooms.
• Purchasing identified a cooperative purchasing contract with Conference Technologies Inc., Itasca, Illinois through TIPS to procure services to upgrade existing audio-video and integrate with courtroom AV requirements supporting in-person or hybrid proceedings in the older courtrooms.
• This contract will cost the County an estimated amount of $694,251.54.
• In accordance with Section 33.115 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, Cooperative Joint Purchasing, Lake County may participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement with Conference Technologies, Inc.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the 19th Judicial Circuit Court was awarded grant funding from the Supreme Court of Illinois Court Technology Modernization Program to provide services benefiting the court, court users and justice partners; and
WHEREAS, the contract will provide an upgrade to the existing audio, video and integrate with courtroom AV requirements supporting in-person or hybrid proceedings in twenty-seven (27) of the older courtrooms; and
WHEREAS, purchasing identified a cooperative purchasing contract with Conference Technologies In., Itasca, Illinois through TIPS to procure services to upgrade existing audio-video and integrate with courtroom AV requirements supporting in-person or hybrid proceedings in the older courtrooms; and
WHEREAS, this contract will cost the County an estimated amount of $694,251.54; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 33.115 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, Cooperative Purchasing, Lake County may participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement with Conference Technologies, Inc.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Purchasing Agent is authorized to enter into a contract with Conference Technologies, Inc. of Itasca, Illinois to upgrade existing audio-video and integrate with courtroom AV requirements supporting in-person or hybrid proceedings in the older courtrooms in an estimated amount of $694,251.54.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on May 10, 2022.